Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.

Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.